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Thursday, January 26, 2017

Using PDFTK to Process PDF Documents

When dealing with PDF documents, we come across different requirements such as splitting a document in to parts and sometimes merging multiple documents together. I recently came across a great tool which we can use to do various tasks with PDF documents. I decided to list down few things I can do using pdftk tool and leave a link to a better resource.

(1) Install pdftk tool.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install pdftk

(2) Suppose I want to create a new pdf file extracted from the contents of the page numbers 31 to 37 in a larger pdf file. We can do that as follows.

pdftk input.pdf cat 31-37 output output.pdf

(3) Merging two documents one at the end of another.

pdftk input-file1.pdf input-file2.pdf cat output new-document.pdf

(4) Selecting few pages from multiple documents and putting them together into a single document.